Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has alleged that because the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) dropped out of energy, non-public faculties throughout the Capital have been mountaineering their charges.
Sisodia accused the BJP-led authorities of colluding with college managements and turning a blind eye to the monetary burden on mother and father. Alleging a deeper situation, the previous training minister additionally stated there is perhaps a nexus between non-public college managements and BJP leaders, and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the matter.
Addressing a press convention on Saturday, Sisodia stated, “The largest fear for us proper now’s that non-public faculties have began growing their charge. Again after we fashioned the federal government, we had made a regulation to make sure that non-public faculties can not arbitrarily enhance their charge… In 2015, we had carried out an audit of every college for which we had employed CAs, and made it obligatory that faculties would require a authorities nod earlier than they will enhance their charge.”
Sisodia claimed that the ruling BJP is “hand in glove” with non-public faculties, enabling unjustified charge hikes. Citing particular examples, Sisodia identified that Ahlcon Public College had elevated its charges for Class 11 from Rs 11,000 to Rs 12,000 whereas Angels Public College had carried out an 11 per cent hike, amongst others.
He emphasised that the AAP authorities had enforced strict measures to curb arbitrary charge hikes, together with a complete monetary audit by chartered accountants empanelled by the Comptroller and Auditor Basic (CAG).
“Solely these faculties got permissions for which the CAG-empanelled CAs had affirmed that the college wants to extend their charge with a purpose to present salaries. Any college that had cash of their coffers was not allowed to extend their charge,” Sisodia stated.
He added, “Many faculties had solely approached the courtroom in opposition to the federal government’s resolution. When you would have seen then throughout my tenure, the best variety of circumstances in opposition to any division was the training division. These have been largely circumstances by which non-public faculties had approached the courtroom.”
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